Fathers, start your engines!

It’s that time of year again! Join us this weekend for our spectacular Father’s Day Car Show, celebrating its 20th year.

Jessica Sylver

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GASOLINE ALLEY – How else to describe Main Street as tens of thousands of strollers take in the 2013 Hyannis Area Chamber of Commerce Father’s Day Car Show? This year’s entry is even more ambitious.

It’s that time of year again! Join us this weekend for our spectacular Father’s Day Car Show, celebrating its 20th year.

We kick off the weekend – yes, that’s right; it has turned into a weekend-long event – with our VIP reception on Saturday night, a Thank You to those that have participated in our annual car show. The idea behind the VIP reception was to bring those “car guys” to the Cape for the weekend and what better way to do that than to have car celebrities at the event?

This year we are happy to announce that the one and only Shirley (Cha Cha) Muldowney will be our guest speaker for our VIP reception. She is the first woman in history to be licensed to drive a Top Fuel dragster, the first woman to win a world championship in a professional racing series, the first driver – regardless of gender – to win a second NHRA Top Fuel championship and the first to win a third, and the only woman Top Fuel driver to win the prestigious NHRA U.S. Nationals. These are a sampling of her Hall of Fame credentials, and that is just a hint of what she has accomplished throughout her career.

Also that evening, the Cape Cod Classics Car Club will have a smaller car show going on behind the JFK Hyannis Museum. It will be their dash plaque night. The best part of the night is stopping traffic on Main Street (with the help of the Barnstable Police Department) to watch these beautiful cars leisurely cruise around downtown.

Not only do we have Shirley for our Saturday VIP reception, but we also have Wayne Carini from the hit TV show Chasing Classic Cars and Bill Stephens (one of the founders of the show) on Sunday. Wayne will be available to sign autographs, pose for pictures, pictures and hand out a few of our awards. On the Village Green we have East Coast Crafters both Saturday and Sunda,y and new this year will be a ”Kids Zone” with kiddie amusement rides and inflatables at the 500 block of Main Street.

We’ve been granted permission to extend the show all the way to Stevens Street. Last year we stopped at Sea Street. This year we are hoping to get 375 cars on Main Street to go along with the theme of the Town turning 375 years old.

All of this couldn’t happen without the continued support of our Board of Directors, Volunteers, the Town of Barnstable and of course our sponsors: Horgan Insurance, Hyannis Collision, Tracy VW, Specialty Truck and Auto, Cape Country 104 & Ocean 104.7, Qantum Communications, Classic Coachworks, Rockland Trust, DSW, SencorpWhite, Robert B Our, Narragansett Beer and Joseph Carr Wine.

For more information on the Father’s Day Car show, please contact Ellen Brady at 508-775-7778, x10 or ellen@hyannis.com.